Palindrome Hannah is currently a BookBub selection. Snag this eBook March 27th through the end of April 3rd for only $0.99 in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada. Also available as an audiobook.
Enter a cruel palindrome world: a symmetric place where disturbing situations displace the common; where good acts transmute to evil ones; where windows and mirrors are interchangeable. Within, characters influence each other through macabre arrangements of involuntary happenstance, and learn the inevitabilities of coincidence. A segmented story of a mother and daughter intertwines the others. This hidden sixth story, assembled from the five separate narratives, uncovers the sad life of a child who carries a palindrome name, and her struggling teenage mother. With five stories heading one direction, and Hannah traveling the opposite, the story unfolds like a palindrome. A puzzle within a puzzle.
The debut novel by Michael Bailey, and a finalist for the Independent Publisher Book Award. Features illustrations by Michael Ian Bateson.
For a limited time, free review copies of audiobooks are available on a first come, first served basis, including Hangtown, Palindrome Hannah, and Our Children, Our Teachers.
Returning to his hometown, Shirley Jackson Award-nominated and Bram Stoker Award-winning writer and editor Michael Bailey fills in the missing pieces of a town’s dark past in this homage to Charles Portis’ True Grit and Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.
Based on a true story, Hangtownis a historical western about the hangings in a placer mining town that once went by that moniker, one of the first established diggings during the chaos of the Gold Rush. Set from 1848 to 1850, the unlawful were punished and hanged swiftly for crimes of theft and violence, haunting forever what is now Placerville, California.
For a limited time, 25 free review copies will be given out in the United States, as well as 25 free review copies in the United Kingdom. Simply email hangtown@nettirw.com with your preference and a link with a code to download will be made available.
Palindrome Hannah, the debut novel by Michael Bailey, is still available as an audiobook, read by Lawrence Alexander.
Enter a cruel palindrome world: a symmetric place where disturbing situations displace the common; where good acts transmute to evil ones; where windows and mirrors are interchangeable. Within, characters influence each other through macabre arrangements of involuntary happenstance, and learn the inevitabilities of coincidence. A segmented story of a mother and daughter intertwines the others. This hidden sixth story, assembled from the five separate narratives, uncovers the sad life of a child who carries a palindrome name, and her struggling teenage mother. With five stories heading one direction, and Hannah traveling the opposite, the story unfolds like a palindrome. A puzzle within a puzzle.
For a limited time, 25 free review copies will be given out in the United States, as well as 25 free review copies in the United Kingdom. Simply email palindrome@nettirw.com with your preference and a link with a code to download will be made available.
Our Children, Our Teachers, the Bram Stoker Award-nominated novelette by Michael Bailey, is also now available as an audiobook, read by Sherry L. Neiman.
Children are often our greatest teachers, but what happens if the lesson is too heavy to hold? In Our Children, Our Teachers, a high school is taken hostage by a gathering of unlikely students trying to teach the world a new lesson … a foreshadowing, perhaps, to darker times ahead for the American education system if gun control is not addressed properly.
For a limited time, 25 free review copies will be given out in the United States, as well as 25 free review copies in the United Kingdom. Simply email ocot@nettirw.com with your preference and a link with a code to download will be made available.
Written Backwards is not open to submissions at this time, but due to high interest and numerous inquiries about You, Human, Vol. 2 (to be released in 2025), we are announcing an early open call for submissions for the month of September, 2024. Do not send submissions yet (unless invited). The open call for submissions will begin September 1st and end September 30th later this year.
YOU, HUMAN
The first volume of You, Human(2016) won the Benjamin Franklin Award for science fiction and is the most successful and widely-read anthology published by Written Backwards. Josh Malerman’s story “The Jupiter Drop” was also nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction and is currently in development as a major motion picture.
If you need to catch up, it is highly recommended to read the first volume of You, Human before submitting work for consideration.
The second volume will again not only feature legends of the craft but showcase today’s emerging talent. The anthology is currently invite-only (with more announcements to be revealed soon), but submissions will open to the public in September.
What does it mean to be alive? What does it mean to be real? What does it mean to exist? What does it mean to be human? Once again, Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics will be re-evaluated and revised to help define humanity, this time by novelettes (7,500 – 15,000 words max).
Three Laws of Humanity:
A human being may not injure another human being or, through inaction, allow another human being to come to harm.
A human being must obey the orders given it by other human beings except where such orders would conflict with the first law.
A human being must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the first or second laws.
GUIDELINES
Manuscripts must include contact information on the title page, as well as author name (or pseudonym) and page numbers on subsequent pages; 12pt font, double-spaced; there are no hard guidelines for auto-rejections, but understand the basics of professional manuscript formatting.
Original fiction: 7,500 – 15,000words. The sweet spot is 7,500 – 10,000 words.
Accepted genre(s): Dark sci-fi and all blended sub-genres (horror, fantasy, etc.)
Payment: $0.10 / word (ten cents per word) capped at 5,000 words, and a contributor copy of each edition published (hardcover, paperback, and eBook). So, $500 per story. For collaborative works, payment will be split equally between collaborators.
Rights: First World Rights in English; all rights revert to the writer immediately upon publication, although 12 months exclusivity is requested, except for inclusion in a personal or “best of” collection published after the anthology. All other rights remain with the author.
Submission window: September 1st – September 30th, 2024 (30 days, ending midnight your time). This gives you from now until the end of September to work on something original. Submissions received before or after this window (unless requested) will be auto-rejected.
Exception: Writers previously published in any Written Backwards anthology may submit work at any time, regardless of the submission window. Basically, alumni are always invited.
Reprints: No.
Instant rejections: stories under 7,500 words, stories over 15,000 words, reprints, excerpts, nonfiction, young adult, poetry (unless personally invited), romance, erotica, gore for the sake of gore, violence for the sake of violence, works that contain hate speech or discrimination of any kind other than to fight against such horrible things, and any writing influenced by A.I.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
All submissions will be checked for the use of artificial intelligence in their creation using detection software and will be automatically rejected if found to include influence. Likewise, any who submit such material will be banned from future submissions to Written Backwards anthologies.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please notify if your submission is accepted by another venue. Please only submit one manuscript at a time and wait for a non-acceptance (rejection) prior to submitting again, with no more than 2 submissions total.
Illustrations: Similar to previous Written Backwards titles, accepted stories may include illustrations. If an artist is used, they will be paid professional rates and the use of A.I. will not be allowed,
Publication: 2025 (to be determined).
Formats: Hardcover, paperback, and eBook.
Due to the number of submissions anticipated (typically 1,000 – 1,500, sometimes as high as 2,500), non-acceptances will be announced by way of a form response as quickly as manageable.
Allow up to 3 months before inquiring about a submission. For submissions that reach the “maybe pile,” additional time for consideration will be requested until the anthology is full.
HOW TO SUBMIT
Email YH2@nettirw.com with the story attached (.docx, .doc, .rtf only; no PDF). Feel free to include a short bio and information about your particular demographic (representing the underrepresented is a passion of the editor), but no other information is needed.
OTHER INFORMATION
Please do not use this opportunity (as many have in the past) to query about other potential projects. Written Backwards is not open at this time to fiction collections, poetry collections, novellas, novels, anthology ideas, or any other projects.
Written Backwards has always highlighted the work of a diverse cast of writers from around the world and will continue to do so, which is why this anthology will open for submissions and will pay professional rates. While not many like the term “literary,” that is what this anthology is looking for: groundbreaking work that break normal conventions and will stand the test of time, propelling emerging and undiscovered writers into the mainstream.
If unfamiliar with previous Written Backwards anthologies that blend science fiction with other genres, it is highly recommended to read previous titles, such as Prisms and/or Adam’s Ladder (co-edited by Darren Speegle), Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors(co-edited by Doug Murano), the original You, Human, any of the books in the Chiral Mad series, or the Qualia Nous series. Familiarizing yourself with these works will better your chances of landing a spot in You, Human, Vol. 2.
All accepted works will meet active membership requirements for organizations such as the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA), the Horror Writers Association (HWA), and others.
Similar to previous Written Backwards anthologies, all contracts protect the writer.
TABLE OF CONTENTS (so far):
“AI Chronicles: Properties of a Human Curse” by Eugen Bacon “Time for a (R)Evolution! – A Documentary” by Sachin Baliga “The Touch of an Old Friend’s Hand” by Scott Edelman With an introduction by Maxwell Ian Gold.
I am stoke(re)d to see Qualia Nous, Vol. 2 on the Bram Stoker Award Preliminary Ballot for Superior Achievement in an Anthology. I’m “the editor,” so focus goes on me for a bit, but the following and their work are responsible for this book being what it is:
“Interstices” (found poem(s) from Vol. 1 as an intro) – Pat R. Steiner “A Story That Must Be Read Alone but Never at Night” (short story) – Chuck Palahniuk “Shattered in Daylight” (poem) – Linda D. Addison “We Come Apart and Then We Arrive” (short story) – Eric LaRocca “Here We Are” (poem) – Elizabeth Massie “An Invitation for the Uninvited” (novelette) – Scott Edelman “Set Me on Fire” (poem) – Cynthia Pelayo “Twice as Many Stars” (short story) – Paul Michael Anderson “Playground of the Gods” (poem) – Christina Sng “The Fallen Man” (short story) – Geneve Flynn “Lullabies of a Distant World” (poem) – Pedro Iniguez “Other” (short story) – Gordon Linzner “Vessel” (poem) – Lee Murray “Come Find Me” (short story) – Zoje Stage “Self-Discovery” (poem) – Ngo Binh Anh Khoa “The Song of Fools” (novelette) – Patrick Freivald “A Particle Accelerator Love Song” (poem) – Brent Baldwin “Blue-Red-Green” (novelette) – Peter Hagelslag “Sacrificing for the Path of Orbits” (poem) – Christopher Collingwood “Investigations into Hypnagogia” (novelette) – Sachin Baliga “My Memory Is as Time Is” (poem) – Mark Granger “The Infinite Hourglass” (short story) – Kehkashan Khalid “Common Sense, No More” (prose poem) – Maxwell I. Gold “The Sum of Our Parts Needs Only One Heart” (short story) – Michael Paul Gonzalez “Alive / Real / Exists / Human” (collection of poems) – Eugen Bacon “Bilocation in Liminal Space” (short story) – Erik Williams “Danse Sanguinaire” (poem) – Deborah L. Davitt “Choose Your Own Demise” (short story) – Richard Thomas & Repo Kempt “Crazy” (poem) – Jeffrey Oliver “Stuff She Put in a Box for Her New Room” (novelette) – Gary A. Braunbeck “What Weird Weather We Had” (poem) – Josh Malerman “Oil on Water” (short story) – Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki “Nightmare” (poem) – L. Marie Wood “Once, I Dreamed I Was Dead” (short story) – Rebecca J. Allred “Paranoid: A Chant” (poem) – Stephen King “Lucid Interval” (novelette) – Michael J. Riser “Deeply You” (poem) – Max Booth III “The Thing That Laughs in the Dark” (short story) – Gabino Iglesias “Some Days, Most Days” (poem) – Kaaron Warren “Dog-Whistles” (short story) – Cody Goodfellow “Ghost in the Machine” (poem) – Karen Poppy “Everyday Horror” (short story) – Steve Rasnic Tem “Me” (poem) – Jamal Hodge
The original Qualia Nous made the final ballot and was nominated for Superior Achievement in an Anthology, with two of its stories winning for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction (Usman T. Malik and Rena Mason, in a tie). The anthology also won the Benjamin Franklin Award. Let’s hope the second volume finds its way onto the final ballot as well!
“Interstices” (found poem(s) from Vol. 1 as an intro) – Pat R. Steiner “A Story That Must Be Read Alone but Never at Night” (short story) – Chuck Palahniuk “Shattered in Daylight” (poem) – Linda D. Addison “We Come Apart and Then We Arrive” (short story) – Eric LaRocca “Here We Are” (poem) – Elizabeth Massie “An Invitation for the Uninvited” (novelette) – Scott Edelman “Set Me on Fire” (poem) – Cynthia Pelayo “Twice as Many Stars” (short story) – Paul Michael Anderson “Playground of the Gods” (poem) – Christina Sng “The Fallen Man” (short story) – Geneve Flynn “Lullabies of a Distant World” (poem) – Pedro Iniguez “Other” (short story) – Gordon Linzner “Vessel” (poem) – Lee Murray “Come Find Me” (short story) – Zoje Stage “Self-Discovery” (poem) – Ngo Binh Anh Khoa “The Song of Fools” (novelette) – Patrick Freivald “A Particle Accelerator Love Song” (poem) – Brent Baldwin “Blue-Red-Green” (novelette) – Peter Hagelslag “Sacrificing for the Path of Orbits” (poem) – Christopher Collingwood “Investigations into Hypnagogia” (novelette) – Sachin Baliga “My Memory Is as Time Is” (poem) – Mark Granger “The Infinite Hourglass” (short story) – Kehkashan Khalid “Common Sense, No More” (prose poem) – Maxwell I. Gold “The Sum of Our Parts Needs Only One Heart” (short story) – Michael Gonzalez “Alive / Real / Exists / Human” (collection of poems) – Eugen Bacon “Bilocation in Liminal Space” (short story) – Erik Williams “Danse Sanguinaire” (poem) – Deborah L. Davitt “Choose Your Own Demise” (short story) – Richard Thomas & Repo Kempt “Crazy” (poem) – Jeff Oliver “Stuff She Put in a Box for Her New Room” (novelette) – Gary A. Braunbeck “What Weird Weather We Had” (poem) – Josh Malerman “Oil on Water” (short story) – Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki “Nightmare” (poem) – L. Marie Wood “Once, I Dreamed I Was Dead” (short story) – Rebecca J. Allred “Paranoid: A Chant” (poem) – Stephen King “Lucid Interval” (novelette) – Michael J. Riser “Deeply You” (poem) – Max Booth III “The Thing That Laughs in the Dark” (short story) – Gabino Iglesias “Some Days, Most Days” (poem) – Kaaron Warren “Dog-Whistles” (short story) – Cody Goodfellow “Ghost in the Machine” (poem) – Karen Poppy “Everyday Horror” (short story) – Steve Rasnic Tem “Me” (poem) – Jamal Hodge
The anthology also contains 43 pieces of artwork by Pat R. Steiner, who also wrote the found-poem / introduction, which contains fragments of fiction and poetry from the original Qualia Nous.
Purchase directly from the publisher (US only, shipping included) . . .
Before the reveal, a little history about the series . . .
The first volume of Qualia Nouswon the Benjamin Franklin Award for science fiction, was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology, had two of its short stories win the Bram Stoker Award (in a tie) for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction (with a third also making the preliminary ballot), was a silver medal finalist in horror for the Independent Publisher Book Awards, a finalist in science fiction and bronze winner in anthologies for Foreword Reviews Book of the Year (now the IndieFAB), a finalist in both science fiction and anthologies for the Indie Book Awards, a finalist in anthologies for the USA Best Book Awards, a winner in science fiction for the International Book Awards, included a poem that won the Rhysling Award, and a short story nominated for the Nebula.
The original Qualia Nouswas also the first time the press had the opportunity to publish Stephen King (now somewhat of a regular), and the first time any Written Backwards anthology included poetry. If you want to check it out, click the image below.
In other words, the first volume in what is now a series made some serious noise. Qualia Nous, Vol. 2, which is 428 pages, will also include 43 illustrations by Pat R. Steiner (see the thumbnails below), as well as 21 poems and 21 short stories (a handful of those novelettes). The anthology is going to be absolutely beautiful, alternating between fiction and poetry throughout by some of the most incredible writers of contemporary science fiction, horror, and dark fantasy.
Here’s a preview of the artwork (in poster form):
So, without further ado, the final Table of Contents for Qualia Nous, Vol. 2:
“Interstices” (found poem(s) from Vol. 1 as an intro) – Pat R. Steiner “A Story That Must Be Read Alone but Never at Night” (short story) – Chuck Palahniuk “Shattered in Daylight” (poem) – Linda D. Addison “We Come Apart and Then We Arrive” (short story) – Eric LaRocca “Here We Are” (poem) – Elizabeth Massie “An Invitation for the Uninvited” (novelette) – Scott Edelman “Set Me on Fire” (poem) – Cynthia Pelayo “Twice as Many Stars” (short story) – Paul Michael Anderson “Playground of the Gods” (poem) – Christina Sng “The Fallen Man” (short story) – Geneve Flynn “Lullabies of a Distant World” (poem) – Pedro Iniguez “Other” (short story) – Gordon Linzner “Vessel” (poem) – Lee Murray “Come Find Me” (short story) – Zoje Stage “Self-Discovery” (poem) – Ngo Binh Anh Khoa “The Song of Fools” (novelette) – Patrick Freivald “A Particle Accelerator Love Song” (poem) – Brent Baldwin “Blue-Red-Green” (novelette) – Peter Hagelslag “Sacrificing for the Path of Orbits” (poem) – Christopher Collingwood “Investigations into Hypnagogia” (novelette) – Sachin Baliga “My Memory Is as Time Is” (poem) – Mark Granger “The Infinite Hourglass” (short story) – Kehkashan Khalid “Common Sense, No More” (prose poem) – Maxwell I. Gold “The Sum of Our Parts Needs Only One Heart” (short story) – Michael Gonzalez “Alive / Real / Exists / Human” (collection of poems) – Eugen Bacon “Bilocation in Liminal Space” (short story) – Erik Williams “Danse Sanguinaire” (poem) – Deborah L. Davitt “Choose Your Own Demise” (short story) – Richard Thomas & Repo Kempt “Crazy” (poem) – Jeff Oliver “Stuff She Put in a Box for Her New Room” (novelette) – Gary A. Braunbeck “What Weird Weather We Had” (poem) – Josh Malerman “Oil on Water” (short story) – Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki “Nightmare” (poem) – L. Marie Wood “Once, I Dreamed I Was Dead” (short story) – Rebecca J. Allred “Paranoid: A Chant” (poem) – Stephen King “Lucid Interval” (novelette) – Michael J. Riser “Deeply You” (poem) – Max Booth III “The Thing That Laughs in the Dark” (short story) – Gabino Iglesias “Some Days, Most Days” (poem) – Kaaron Warren “Dog-Whistles” (short story) – Cody Goodfellow “Ghost in the Machine” (poem) – Karen Poppy “Everyday Horror” (short story) – Steve Rasnic Tem “Me” (poem) – Jamal Hodge
When will the anthology be available? If everything goes according to plan, October 31st, 2023, simultaneously in hardcover, paperback, and eBook. Yes, this lovely Halloween. And lastly, here’s a close-up of the illustration for Stephen King’s poem “Paranoid: A Chant,” which has a nice Dark Tower vibe . . .
The Horror Writers Association released their 2022 Bram Stoker Awards ® Preliminary Ballot, and Marge Simon and I are pleased to announce that Sifting the Ashes (released by Crystal Lake Publishing) made the list for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection. This does not mean the book is nominated, but it is still an honor to be considered. We put everything we had into this book.
Over a hundred individual and collaborative poems explore what it takes to survive after all is suddenly taken. Combined life experiences of love, loss, and personal tragedy sift what’s salvageable from the aftermath of fire, searching through the layers of ash for lessons about death, cremation, and the various stages of grief. What might be found in the remains after all is lost?
Horror Writers Association voting members may request a free PDF by emailing written@nettirw.com.
Everyone hates creating (and probably reading) “Award Eligibility” lists, as well as writing (and probably receiving) opt-in emails to consider one’s work for award recognition, but it has become essential for independent and non-bestselling writers to highlight what they have published, a way to determine from their peers if what they have published is any good. And let’s face it: all creators want award recognition. Who doesn’t want a statue, a trophy, a rock?
Toward the end of the year, social media, websites, and email inboxes are flooded with last-minute “for your consideration” type posts, even though this could have done throughout the year. Why? Because most who recommend works for award consideration do so in bulk toward the end of the year, and because not all award systems are jury-driven. This is sadly the case, which is why no one tends to see “Award Eligibility” lists or opt-in emails during the first ten months of the year.
But . . . then, is there enough time to read the work in those final months? Not usually, but the list or opt-in email or whatever it may be works as a reminder to “rec it” if having already read and enjoyed the work, and without using the R-word. It is similar to begging for book reviews, which has become another essential for independent and non-bestselling writers.
It goes against award conduct to request recommendations from peers, but isn’t that exactly what “Award Eligibility” lists do without implicitly stating, “Consider recommending my [ title and type of published work ] for the [ fill-in-the blank ] Award”?
“Award Eligibility” lists thus are created as a way of stating without stating, “Here’s my work to consider for awards this year, not that, you know, I deserve such things,” while implying, so if you feel inclined, maybe, you know, throw in a good word?
All that said, below is my list of works published in 2022 that I am most proud of (one for each category, some of which were collaborations with other writers), and with all the important information about each, if, you know . . .
Title: Chiral Mad 5 Category: Anthology Editor: Michael Bailey Publisher: Written Backwards Month of Publication: September
Title: Sifting the Ashes Category: Poetry Collection Author(s): Michael Bailey & Marge Simon Publisher: Crystal Lake Publishing Month of Publication: April
Title: The Call of the Void Category: Novella Author(s): Michael Bailey & Erinn L. Kemper Publisher: Bleeding Edge Books Month of Publication: March
Title: “Slo-Mo” Category: Short Story Author: Michael Bailey Publisher: Hybrid Sequence Media Venue: Hybrid: Misfits, Monsters, and Other Phenomena (anthology) Month of Publication: June
Title: “A Need for Storytelling” Category: Short Nonfiction Author: Michael Bailey Publisher: Manuscripts Venue: Online (manuscripts.com/a-need-for-storytelling) Month of Publication: December
The Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated anthology, coedited by Doug Murano and Michael Bailey, is under a buck on Kindle in the US / UK now through the weekend. Snag a copy of the eBook if you haven’t already. Features the Stoker-winning short story by Josh Malerman.
Foreword by Alma Katsu
“A Heart Arrhythmia Creeping into a Dark Room” – Michael Wehunt “Matryoshka” – Jo Kaplan “Butcher’s Blend” – Brian Hodge “Operations Other than War” – Nadia Bulkin “One Day of Inside/Out” – Linda D. Addison “One Last Transformation” – Josh Malerman “Brains” – Ramsey Campbell “You Are My Neighbor” – Max Booth III “The Vodyanoy” – Christina Sng “Imperfect Clay” – Lisa Morton “Spectral Evidence” – Victor LaValle “Ode to Joad the Toad” – Laird Barron “Only Bruises Are Permanent” – Scott Edelman “My Knowing Glance” – Lucy A. Snyder “Paper Doll Hypderplane” – R.B. Payne “Not Eradicated In You” – Bracken MacLeod “Resurrection Points” – Usman T. Malik “The Old Gods of Light” – Christina Sng “Sounds Caught in Cobwebs” – M.E. Bronstein “Umbra Sum” – Kristi DeMeester “A Benediction of Corpses” – Stephanie M. Wytovich “The Making of Asylum Ophelia” – Mercedes Yardley “Frakenstein’s Daughter” – Theodora Goss
To celebrate the Shirley Jackson Award nomination for A Rose / Arose from Psychotropic Dragon, Written Backwards is offering a sampling of writing by Michael Bailey for free from October 19th thru the 23rd. All we ask is to leave a review on Amazon.com and/or Goodreads. Click the covers below. Have you read these collections already? We’d love a review!
PSYCHOTROPIC DRAGON is the third composite novel (technically a fiction collection) by Michael Bailey. Part short novel, part novella, part novelette, with a few short stories and fables in between, Psychotropic Dragon is a mind-bending composite narrative about Julie Stipes and her experience with the street drug Drakein-5. The psychotropic eye drops blur reality, sending her through a horrific journey of self-discovery and recovery. Each act in this ensemble is further brought to life with illustrations by Daniele Serra, Glenn Chadbourne, L.A. Spooner, and Ty Scheuerman.
THE IMPOSSIBLE WEIGHT OF LIFE, an autobiographical collection of speculative fiction and poetry by Michael Bailey. contains Bram Stoker Award-nominated short stories such as “I Will Be the Reflection Until the End” and “Time Is a Face on the Water,” but also never-before-published mind-benders created during his “highly-medicated” state of recovery, including a story about memory loss called “Fragments of Br_an,” (composed on a typewriter that no longer exists, now ash), “Emergence of the Colorless,” a statement about the beginning of the end of prejudice, and the far future “Oll Korrect,” in which artificial intelligence is used to explore humankind. As for poetry, there are favorites such as “Loosed Earth” and “Shades of Red,” but many new poems to help with balance, including “Hurt People Hurt People,” “Night Rainbows,” and “Paper Earth.”
OVERSIGHT, a themed collection of two novelettes and a short story by Michael Bailey. Includes “Darkroom” and “SAD Face” (novelettes), and “Fade to Black” (short story).
WRITTEN BACKWARDS 